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SCA: security update for ethyca-fides (GHSA-g95c-2jgm-hqc6)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415017

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing data privacy requests and privacy
 regulations. The Fides webserver is vulnerable to a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Attackers can
 exploit a weakness in the connector template upload feature to upload a malicious zip bomb file, resulting
 in resource exhaustion and service unavailability for all users of the Fides webserver. This vulnerability
 affects Fides versions `2.11.0` through `2.15.1`. Exploitation is limited to users with elevated
 privileges with the `CONNECTOR_TEMPLATE_REGISTER` scope, which includes root users and users with the
 owner role. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.16.0`. Users are advised to upgrade to
 this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. There is no known workaround to
 remediate this vulnerability without upgrading. If an attack occurs, the impact can be mitigated by
 manually or automatically restarting the affected container. (CVE-2023-37480)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g95c-2jgm-hqc6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415017

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-37480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37480

cwe: CWE-400